This page provides, in broadly chronological order, a sampling of photographs and other images that may help to illustrate Blanqui’s life and times.
Puget-Theniers in the nineteenth century
Execution of the four sergeants of La Rochelle, vintage engraved illustration. History of France – 1885.
Street fighting during the July 1830 uprising (from Decaux)
Street fighting, rue Saint-Antoine, 28 July 1830 (engraving inspired by Martinet)
Sainte-Pelagie prison in the nineteenth century
Atget, Sainte-Pelagie prison, 1898
Cell at Sainte-Pelagie prison (from Decaux)
Blanqui, Le Liberateur no. 1 (2 February 1834), front page
Jeansson, Insurrection of 12 May 1839 (from Decaux)
Insurrection of 12 May 1839
Sechan, Mont St Michel prison, 1842
Corridor at Mont Saint Michel prison
Cell at Mont Saint Michel prison, 1840s (after installation of window bars)
Cell at Mont Saint Michel prison, 1840s (before installation of window bars)
Solitary confinement cell at Mont Saint Michel prison
Banquet at Château-Rouge (9 July 1847)
Philippoteaux, Lamartine refuses the red flag in front of the Hotel de Ville, 25 February 1848
Demonstration of 17 March 1848
Lamartine meets with Blanqui, 15 April 1848 (from Decaux)
First session of the National Assembly, 4 May 1848
Renard, National Assembly, 1848
Popular Invasion of the National Assembly, 15 May 1848
Perrotin, Popular invasion of the National Assembly, 15 May 1848
Vernet, Barricade at rue Soufflot, 25 June 1848
La Prise du Chateau d’eau en 1848
Barricades de la rue Saint-Maur, avant l’attaque, 25 juin 1848
Barricades de la rue Saint-Maur, après l’attaque, 26 juin 1848
Blanqui escorted to prison, 4 March 1849 (from Decaux)
Blanqui and Barbes under police guard, trial of Bourges, 1849 (from Decaux)
Blanqui, Barbes and other defendants in the dock, trial at Bourges, 1849 (from Decaux)
Blanqui responding to the prosecution, trial of Bourges, 1849 (from Decaux)
Attempted insurrection of August 1870, the assault on La Villette (from Decaux)
Marchand and Granger declare the end of the Second Empire, 4 September 1870 (from Decaux)
Demonstration at the Hotel de Ville, 31 October 1870
Vue de la place Vendome, La Commune de Paris (1871)
Franck, Colonne Vendome, 1871
Barricade Voltaire, Commune de Paris 1871
Barricades pres de Ministere de la Marine et l’Hotel Crillon (Commune de Paris 1871)
Richebourg, Paris barricade 1871
Barricade de la Place Blanche, defendue par des femmes pendant la semaine sanglante (May 1871)
Les combats dans la rue Rivoli pendant la Commune de Paris (May 1871)
Luce (Maximilien), The Execution of Eugene Varlin, Montmartre 28 May 1871
Manet, Guerre civile, 1871
Cadavres de soldats fédérés durant la Commune de Paris de 1871 (mai 1871)
Luce, A street in Paris in May 1871
Disderi, Communards killed in 1871, in their coffins
View of the Rue de Rivoli after the fall of the Commune, May 1871
Burned ruins of the Hôtel de Ville, headquarters of the Commune, after 24 May 1871
Chateau du Taureaux prison
Blanqui on his death bed, January 1881 (from Decaux)
Blanqui, funeral cortege, January 1881 (from Decaux)
The obsequies of Blanqui, Louise Michel delivering the funeral oration (1881)
